Showing 1 - 10 of 255
Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … how it was possible both for "the poor" to have fared badly relatively to "the rich" in the USA during the 1980s (when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439136
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510157
We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within and between generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010198449
We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209156
This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide comprehensive review of a particular area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211217
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001800178
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013538459
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013436464
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003337837
Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and quantile composition changes over time because of income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908333